DEATH OF A DYNASTY

Eight Days That Made Rome, 9pm, Ch5

BETTANY HUGHES (pictured) focuses on June 9, 68AD — the day d on which Emperor Nero took his h own life. His had been the most notorious, tyrannical and debauched reign in Rome’s history — he even had h his own mother, Agrippina, murdered. His death was a turning point, plunging the Empire into an age of anarchy and civil war.